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20 Injured as Tornado Rakes Mississippi

 

By ARTHUR G. SULZBERGER

Published: March 26, 2009

A tornado swept through central Mississippi as residents slept early Thursday morning, injuring at least 20 people and damaging more than 60 buildings, including a church and a water treatment plant, state emergency management officials said.
Even as residents of rural Simpson County dug out, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency warned that an onslaught of tempestuous spring weather was likely to continue through Saturday morning in the form of even stronger tornadoes, flooding and hail, said Greg Flynn, an agency spokesman.
Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Simpson and other counties affected by the storms as the entire state — along with a broad swath of the South from east Texas to North Carolina — braced for the next wave of punishing weather.
Hardest hit on Thursday was the town of Magee, Miss, where the tornado tore through the city’s outskirts. Eric Carpenter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, Miss., said that the winds reached up to 150 miles an hour, and that debris was found as far away as Garlandville, about 50 miles northeast of Magee. Video
“This tornado devastated this small community,” said Mr. Flynn of the Emergenmcy Management Agency. “There are houses that are just splinters. They’re just gone.”
At least 20 people were taken to local hospitals, including 2 who were more seriously injured and airlifted to Jackson, he said.
State officials said they planned to send four generators to restore power to government buildings and the local hospital during the cleanup effort. Mayor Jimmy Clyde said all of the town’s residents had been accounted for and that “nobody is missing, thank god.”

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